But those guys must've known we were too chicken to stay in there for long, and we could see them waiting for us on the road at the edge of the woods.
So our only choice was to go deeper in, and that's what we did.
What was WEIRD was how QUITE it was in there. After a while, I realized we couldn't hear the car on the road, and that's when I knew we'd gone in TOO deep.
We followed our footsteps back to the road, but the sun was going down, and it was getting hard to find our tracks.
We picked up the pace because we didn't wanna get stuck in the woods in the DARK. But when we came across a set of tracks we FROZE.
At first we thought it was the GOAT MAN. But then we realized there were TWO sets of footprints, and they were OURS. That meant we'd spent the past ten minutes walking in a giant CIRCLE.
So we turned round and headed in the OTHER direction. But then we ran into a CREEK, and I knew we were lost.
Rowley was PANICKING, but I wasn't. I knew that, if you get lost in the wilderness, as long as you have WATER you're FINE.
I saw a movies where these explorers got trapped in the mountains, but they found a spring and it kept them a live.
But then I remembered that when they got DESPERATE they had to eat either pack animals. I just hope things didn't reach that point of US.
I figured, if we followed that creek, it might LEAVE us somewhere, and at least we would't get lost again. But, when we came across a beaver dam, Rowley started freaking out.
Rowley said that beavers are DANGEROUS, and that he saw a snow on TV where a beaver attacked a PERSON.
But Rowley's an idiot. The show he was talking about was a CARTOON, and I was actually WITH him when he watched it.
Still, I couldn't convince Rowley to staty near the creek, so we had to turn round AGAIN. And by now it was REALLY dark. After walking a few more minutes, something bright caught my eye. I thought maybe it was the headlights from a car, and we ran towards it.
It turned out the light WAS coming from a car, but it was just a rusty piece of junk in the middle of the woods. And what caught my eye was the reflection of the MOON on the bumper.
When my eyes ajusted to the light, I realized there were a LOT of abandoned cars and trucks all around us.
I saw something thiny sitting on a stump and I picked it up. The thing was cold and metal, and when I held it up to my face to take a closer look I know EXACTLY what it was.
It was a BELT BUCKLE, and it belonged to MECKEY MINGO.
That meant me and Rowley were smack in the middle of the Mingo's CAMP.
People in my town have alwasy wondered where the Mingos live, and now me and Rowley had stumbled into their HEADQUARTERS.
I thought we were LUCKY, because at least there was no one THERE. But, when I turned to LEAVE, something grabbed my HAND.
Well, techincally, something grabbed Mr Morsels. I thought for SURE it was Meckey Mingo and he was gonna KILL me for touching his belt buckle.
Thankfully, I was WRONG. The puppet was snagged on the truck's door handle, so I tried to pull it free.
That's when we heard noised coming from INSIDE THE TRUCK. I realized I had to choose between saving MYSELF and saving a PUPPET.
Me and Rowley tore out of there. But when we were a good distance away from the Mingo's camp we heard a sound that made my blood run cold.
I dind't know if it was the GOAT MAN or the MINGO KIDS.